Wednesday, December 30, 2015

12-30-15 Jive

Good evening, it's Wednesday, December 30th and this is the Jive
at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming
here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent
and local public affairs by day, and the best in free-form community
programming week-nights and weekends.

I'm Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where
"hearing is the best experience" and Connecticut's number 1
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Now here's some of what’s happening in our area this week:
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight it’s WORDS & MUSIC with Drained
Glory, Dan Kalwhite, K. Ponzio, Craig Taylor, Stosh Mikita, Craig Gilbert, and
the ­Cody Place Band. Thursday night, Café Nine offers a New Years Burlesque
with Cabaret, Magic, Side-Show, Games, & Fun surprises! Friday’s Weekly Happy Hour at 5 features Sean Conlon. Later Friday
night, The Nine offers a double bill featuring WOODY PINES and Wise Old
Moon. Saturday’s. Later, Saturday nightr it’s the Jazz Jam session is
with Mike Coppola and Friends at 4:30. Later Saturday night brings the 4th
Annual Beehive Holiday Blowout with CHRISTINE OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ and The
GEORGE BAKER BAND. Sunday night at Café Nine, you can catch BIRTH OF
FLOWER, The Gates of Ivory, and Disco Teen 66. www.cafenine.com

Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight (Wednesday), you can catch
BADFISH, A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME, Inosoul, JG & Friends, plus Bruce 3 and The
Revenge. Thursday night at Toad’s place brings SHAKEDOWN’s NEW YEAR’S EVE
EXTRAVAGANZA, with Kazoo Crew Family Band, and Stoned in America. Sat you
can catch ZACH DEPUTY & Roots of Creation. www.toadsplace.com

The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday at First Church on
Court St. Call 860-347-0278 for details.

The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its meetings on the last
Wednesday of every month. The meetings are open to the public and take place
at: 6 p.m. in Meeting Room 3 at Russell Library www.arts2go.org

Wednesday night, Manic Productions presents a bill featuring Tri-State Era, The
Most, Guest House, & Knife Garden for a night of math rock and emo at Bar
in New Haven on Wednesday. www.manicproductions.org.

First Night Hartford is a family-friendly, alcohol-free New Year's Eve party
that celebrates the arts, bringing together musicians, artists, performances
groups and more at various downtown venues. Find all the details at www.firstnighthartford.org

Infinity Hall brings in the new year at their Norfolk venue with a performance
by The Allman Neville Pitchell Band with Special Guest Saagar Ace. At infinity
Hall Hartford, Tower of power plays 2 shows on NYE. The Cast of
Beatlemania comes to to the Infinity Hall Hartford stage on Saturday. Details
at www.infinityhall.com
An annual New Year's Eve Contra Dance starts at 8 p.m. and winds down about
12:30 a.m. in the ballroom of the West Hartford Town Hall, 50 S. Main St. Bob
Isaacs will call to the music of the Celtic Wild Notes. A potluck is planned
for 6:30. www.hcdance.org

Back here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, is closed until Saturday
morning, when they offer the Aligned with Source guided meditation workshop
from 10:30-noon. Later Saturday night, Pete LaMalfa & His Washingtonians
for an evening of Jazz www.buttonwood.org
.

Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, through Dec 31, They continue their run of
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict a documentary about the colorful character who was
not only ahead of her time but helped to define it. Also showing through
Thursday at Real Art Ways is Janis: Little Girl Blue in which Academy
Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) delves into the life
of late rock legend Janis Joplin. Friday Real Art Ways begins a run of NOMA: My
Perfect Storm, A documentary about the celebrated chef René Redzepi, set
against the backdrop of the Copenhagen-based restaurant NOMA, named the Best
Restaurant in the World in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. More info at www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio will emerge rfom their annual winter hiatus on Jan
6 with a run of MAcBeth! www.cinestudio.org

Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU: (note there may be variations due
to winter break for students at Wesleyan)

Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for Al Robinson's version of Ear
Candy. Hear the new, hear the old, hear the pop songs that get in your head and
won't leave you alone. Listen to Ear Candy, please!
From 6-6:30 its Radio Curious with Barry Vogul from Pacifica offering half hour
interviews on a curiously wide array of topics concerning life and ideas.

Fusion Radio with James Fusion follows from 6:30 to 8, with the best Techno mix
on radio.
From 8 to 9:30 it’s The Warehouse with Mike Nyce, bringing you deep underground
sounds mixed live for your listening pleasure.
And at 9:30, it's The Vault with DJ Anton Banks. Presenting listeners with the
latest in hard techno, minimal, tech-house and leftfield mixed live. Exclusive
music from international artists.

From 11 to midnight, listen to Sean D's extended edition of Metal on Metal. The radio show dedicated to the extreme.
Black, thrash, death, progressive and power metal.

From 1 - 3 am tune in for Franco Liseo as he plays all the disco hits from the
'70s and '80s.

And from 3 - 4 it's Sing Out! Radio magazine with Tom Druckenmiller. A weekly
hour long magazine format programs featuring interviews in addition to live and
recorded traditional folk music.

The BBC World News follows at 4, and we start your day bright and early with
Morning Edition from NPR at 5 a.m.

That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you missed anything, you can find the
script online at wesufm.org/jive. And tune in each and every weekday at 4:55
p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the air right here
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